Fun Inc.: Why games are the 21st Century's most serious business - Couverture souple

Chatfield, Tom

 
9780753519455: Fun Inc.: Why games are the 21st Century's most serious business
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0753519453 ISBN 13 : 9780753519455
Editeur : Virgin Books, 2011

Synopsis

'Tom Chatfield's Fun Inc. is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research ... The numbers surrounding the sector are certainly thudding. By the end of 2008, annual sales of video games - not including consoles or devices - was $40 billion, comfortably outstripping the movie business. In the same year, Nintendo's employees were more profitable per head than Google's. The sheer pervasiveness of game experience - 99 per cent of teenage boys and 94 per cent of teenage girls having played a video game - means that instant naffness falls upon those who express a musty disdain for the medium. In fact, as Fun Inc. elegantly explains, computer game-playing has a very strong claim to be one of the most vital test-beds for intellectual enquiry.'
Independent

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom Chatfield completed his doctorate at St John's College, Oxford, before moving to London to work as a full-time writer and editor. He is currently the arts and books editor at Prospect magazine.

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Éditeur
Virgin Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0753519453
ISBN 13 
9780753519455
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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